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  1. Jun 4, 2020 · An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the principle of autonomy, and each of them is discussed.

    • Basil Varkey
    • 10.1159/000509119
    • 2020
    • Med Princ Pract. 2021 Feb; 30(1): 17-28.
  2. May 7, 2024 · Medical ethics principles provide a framework for healthcare professionals to prioritize patients' well-being, dignity, and trust. However, the multitude of guidelines from different organizations can create confusion about essential rules.

    • Michael Young, Angela Wagner
    • 2024/05/07
    • Overview
    • Public health ethics in practice
    • Details

    An overview of public health ethics for the UK Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF).

    Ref: PHE publications gateway number: 2016566

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    This part of the PHSKF provides an introduction to public health ethics both as a philosophical field of enquiry and as an applied area that guides practice and policy.

    This is a reference document supporting the public health workforce in their practice and:

    •explains public health ethics with reference to the longer-standing field of bioethics

    •indicates in greater depth, the scope of public health ethics as a field of philosophical enquiry

    •explains the links between that field and public health ethics as a direct source of professional norms and standards

    Published 21 April 2017

  3. Dec 20, 2023 · The editors announce a new Perspective series exploring key ethical questions facing medicine today; the hope is that medical ethics can keep pace with the evolution — and revolutions — in...

  4. In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical research, contribute to the education of clinicians, advance thinking in the field, and direct healthcare policy.

  5. Mar 23, 2002 · Summary. Public-health regularly encounters serious ethical dilemmas, such as rationing scarce resources, influencing individuals to change their behaviour, and limiting freedom to diminish disease transmission. Yet unlike medical ethics, there is no agreed-upon framework for analysing these difficulties. We offer such a framework.

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  7. Jul 16, 1994 · Nine years ago the BMJ allowed me to introduce to its readers 1 an approach to medical ethics developed by the Americans Beauchamp and Childress, 2 which is based on four prima facie moral principles and attention to these principles' scope of application.